Alaska Airlines lifted a systemwide ground stop and restored operations after a multi‑hour IT outage traced to a failure at its primary data center that cancelled more than 229 flights and affected 49,000 passengers. The carrier warned residual disruptions and cancellations could continue as it diagnoses its IT infrastructure.
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The outage triggered a nationwide ground stop, cancelling 229+ flights and impacting about 49,000 passengers, demonstrating direct operational and customer‑service damage from IT failures; see the reporting on the carrier's second major IT outage this year (nationwide ground stop and hundreds of cancellations): https://hype.aero/?story=db1ed2ce-0bed-4bf5-a1df-5dbf75243a2f
Alaska traced the disruption to a failure at its primary data centre, underlining airline dependence on centralized IT/cloud systems—an industry risk mirrored by a recent AWS outage that knocked out multiple carriers' websites and apps: https://hype.aero/?story=eb4506c0-0431-4829-bcd0-9fc793c40e80
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